A fossilized find that scientists called a once in a lifetime discovery was almost made into jewelry this week.

A Chinese paleontologist found the piece of amber that contained a 99-million-year-old dinosaur tail at a market in northern Myanmar, near the Chinese border.

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The situation is somewhat similar to that of the 1993 movie “Jurassic Park,” adapted from the Micheal Crichton novel published in 1990. Scientists said, however, that this piece of amber only contained soft tissue and decayed blood from the tail. No genetic material was preserved, as in the fictional movie.

The discovery is the first mummified piece of a dinosaur skeleton ever found. The tail section reportedly belonged to a young Coelurosaurian, who was in the same family as the Velociraptors and the Tyrannosaurus.

But the animal was reportedly not that large, in fact, it was around the size of a sparrow and could fit in the palm of a hand.

Scientists said the piece of amber weighed around 6.5 grams, contained bone fragments and feathers, adding to mounting fossil evidence that many dinosaurs sported feathers rather than scales.

According to paleontologists, the creature probably had a whip-like tail, sort of like a mouse, that was covered in feathers.

Thanks to the preserved amber pigmentation, scientists can assess for certain what the creature looked like. The feather suggested it was possibly chestnut brown and white.